5 Best Chanel Perfumes For Women: N5, Gabrielle Chanel Essence, 31 Rue Cambon, Coco Mademoiselle And Coromandel

There are two kinds of people who wear Chanel perfumes: those who wear N5, and those who have strong opinions about which Chanel they would rather be wearing. While one is a declaration, another is a flirtation. One feels like a Parisian apartment filled with lacquer screens and old money, the other is all sun-warmed flowers. Because the question is not really whether you should wear Chanel, it is simply which Chanel you are. We reveal here the characteristics of these special Chanel perfumes, the price in India and where to buy.

5 Best Chanel Perfumes For Women

Chanel N5

If you wear Chanel N5, you are not trying to introduce yourself. You are already making an entrance. The Chanel N5 Eau de Parfum is the more sensual, ambery interpretation of the signature. Few fragrances carry quite as much fashion history. Rather than smelling like one particular flower, N5's abstract composition helped turn perfume into an identity, something recognisable without being literal.

Chanel N5 price in India starts at ₹16,750. Buy on its India website.

Gabrielle Chanel Essence

If N5 is Chanel in black and white, Gabrielle Chanel Essence is Chanel stepping into the sunlight. Built around jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, and Grasse tuberose, Chanel describes it as floral, solar, and voluptuous. It is polished, but warmer and more radiant than the house's most famous icon.

Gabrielle Chanel Essence price in India starts at ₹11,950. Buy on its India website.

Chanel 31 Rue Cambon

Everyone knows Chanel N5. Far fewer know Chanel 31 Rue Cambon, and that is precisely the point. Named after Chanel's legendary Paris address, this Les Exclusifs fragrance combines iris, black pepper and vetiver in a woody, floral and spicy composition.

31 Rue Cambon price in India starts at ₹21,950. Buy on its India website.

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle may well know all the rules of the perfume business, but it is not particularly interested in following them. With orange, jasmine, rose, patchouli, and vetiver, the ambery fragrance brings Chanel's signature polish with a more 'mischievous' streak.

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle price in India starts at ₹11,950. Available on its India website.

Chanel Coromandel

If Chanel N5 is the Chanel everyone knows, Chanel Coromandel is the one you discover when you start digging deeper. Part of les exclusifs de Chanel, its amber, woody, and vanilla profile takes its name from the Coromandel lacquer screens famously found in Coco Chanel's apartment at 31 rue Cambon.

Coromandel price in India starts at ₹21,950. Available on its India website.

These 5 best Chanel perfumes reveal something interesting: how wide Chanel's fragrance vocabulary can be. There is the icon, the sun-seeker, the insider, the rule-breaker, and the collector. Somewhere between them is probably your perfume. Forget finding your signature scent instead, find your Chanel.